What is a prescriptive moral?

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 3:57 PM, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote:

> Where does that leave the prescriptive moral which I find is really under
> discussion here?
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Chuck Bowling <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The term “morality” can be used either
>>
>>    1. descriptively to refer to some codes of conduct put forward by a
>>    society or,
>>       1. some other group, such as a religion, or
>>       2. accepted by an individual for her own behavior or
>>    2. normatively to refer to a code of conduct that, given specified
>>    conditions, would be put forward by all rational persons.
>>
>> The above definition of morality was taken from the Standford Encyclopedia
>> of Philosophy.
>>
>> It seems to me that while the interpretation of the individual may be
>> subjective, the overall goal of a code of conduct is to objectify behavioral
>> expectations within the group or society.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 6:14 AM, [email protected] <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
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>>>
>>> In short then a flawed human is flawed only on measures of subjective
>>> morality.  I contend that there exists no such thing as objective
>>> morality.
>>>
>>>
>>
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